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western centuries

5/15/2020

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​Western Centuries (from the album Call the Captain available on Free Dirt Records) (by Bryant Liggett)
It is tough to trim the fat when there’s no fat to trim. Apply that idea to a band with three strong songwriters that trade off the role of frontman. When it comes to scissoring the weaker songs from your recording, there is nothing to leave on the cutting room floor when your triple threat ringers toss out all hits as keepers. Cahalen Morrison, Ethan Lawton and Jim Miller may scoff at the term supergroup, yet it applies when you are a leaderless band with a third album in Call the Captain. The recent release showcases thee individual songwriting ability of Western Centuries delivering the album as a team effort. 
A steady drum-beat kicks off “Lifeblood Sold” putting a Country Rock groove on the tracks. Western Centuries landing hard right out of the gate as pedal-steel, fiddle and electric guitar trade licks, riffs, and solos. “Every Time It’s Raining” kicks off with a Blues guitar that trails into the Country Blues of “Barcelona Lighthouse”. “Heart Broke Syndrome” lyrically nails every stage, level and personal attempt we go through after getting dumped as Western Centuries dips into a Classic Country shuffle on the cheating song “No Cure”. A hush surrounds “All The Things That I Could Say To You Right Now” with its minimal instrumentation, “Space Force” a twangy Indie Rock humorous Sci-Fi tale, and “Sarah And Charlie” a bouncing dance hall number with barroom piano and swinging fiddle backing a vivid tale of warm spring night, dude gunning up nerve, and asking a gal to dance; full disclosure..it is damn near impossible to not love this cut. Nosokee Fields holds down the bass duties and Western Centuries is joined by guests that include former Stray Bird Oliver Bates Craven on fiddle and Jim Lauderdale on vocals.  (by Bryant Liggett)
 
Listen and buy the music of Western Centuries from AMAZON
For more information, please visit the Western Centuries website
 
 

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